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"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blackpool Borough May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Blackpool Borough
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Blackpool Borough "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Blackpool Borough
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Blackpool Borough We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Blackpool Borough
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Blackpool Borough He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Blackpool Borough
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Blackpool Borough Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Blackpool Borough
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Blackpool Borough Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Blackpool Borough
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Blackpool Borough A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Blackpool Borough
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Blackpool Borough A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Blackpool Borough
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Blackpool Borough Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Blackpool Borough
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Blackpool Borough "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Blackpool Borough
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Blackpool Borough blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Blackpool Borough
